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THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



[ September, 



A Little Every Day, 



The longest life is made up of single days, few or 

 many; but tlie days grow into years, and give the 

 measure of our lives at the last. 



The life is at the last what the days have been. 

 Let the children, tliereforc, lool< after the days — one 

 day at a time — and put into each one something that 

 will last — sometliing worth doing, and snnietiiing 

 worth remembering, something worth imitating by 

 tliose who follow us. 



1. Every day a little knowledge One fact in a 

 day. How small a thing is one fact ! Only one ! 

 Ten years pass by. Three'thoiisand and six hundred 

 and fifty facts are not a small thing. 



2. Every day a little self-denial. 'Thething that is 

 difficult to do to-day, will be an easy thing to do 

 three hundred and sixty days hence, if each day it 

 shall have been repeated. What power of self-mas- 

 tery shall he enjoy who, looking to God lor Ills grace, 

 seeks every day to practice the grace he prays for. 



3. Every day a little helpfulness. We live for the 

 good of others, if our living be in any sense true liv- 

 ing. It is not in the great deedsof philanthropy that 

 the only blessing is ibund. In 



" Little deeds of kindness," 

 repeated every day, we find the true happiness. At 

 home, at school, in the street, in the neighbor's 

 house, on the jilayirround— we shall find opportunity 

 every day for usefulness. 



4. Every day a little Irtok into the Bible. One 

 chapter a day. Wli.at a treasure of Bible knowledge 

 one may acquire in ten years ! Every day a verse 

 committed to memory. What a volume in tlie mind 

 at the end of twenty-five years. 



Something for Bachelors. 



Dr. Dio Lewis having learned the minimum quan- 

 tity of food on which life cau be sustained, advises 

 all young men to marry and settle down in life. His 

 idea is that " until a man is married his life is lack- 

 ing in that which best develojis his manhood." He 

 gives "old bachelors" some hard raps in a letter 

 published in the Green Bay (Wis.) Advocate, and 

 then administers this rebuke to that class who are 

 anxious to see the world before marrying: "Seeing 

 the world as a young man does who has to earn his 

 living as he goes along, amounts to very little. What 

 he does see is nothing that helps him tight the battle 

 of life more successfully. It only keeps him from 

 the habits which are in direct antagonism to a cor- 

 rect and happy and successful life, and when he gets 

 through ' knocking about ' he has nothing to show 

 for the misspent years save the habits which he must 

 overcome if he would make anything of himself. Do 

 you call that gain or loss? So, young man, take the 

 advice of a man who has kept his eyes open for more 

 years than you have lived, probably, and don't 'knock 

 around.' If you think I have overdrawn the picture, 

 look around you, and out of the men j'ou know select 

 tliose who have • knocked arouud ' and see if they do 

 not bear witness to the truth of every assertion I have 

 made concerning the ela.ss they represent. Are they 

 men you envy ? I tell you, boys, 'knocking around' 

 makes a man good lor nothing else, and I take it you 

 have a desire to be good for something higher in 

 life." 



Saving and Having. 



Either man must be content with poverty all his 

 life, or else he willing to deny himself some luxuries, 

 and save, to lay the base of independence in the 

 future. But if a man defies the future, and .spends 

 all he earns (whether his earnings be one or ten dol- 

 lars every day), let him look lor lean and hungry 

 want at some future time — for it will surely come, no 

 matter what he thinks. To save is absolutely the 

 only way lo get a.solid Ibrtune; there is no othereer- 

 tain mode. Those who shut their eyes and ears to 

 these plain facts will be Ibrever poor, and for their 

 obstinate rejection of truth mayhap will die in rags 

 and flitli. Let them so die, and thank themselves. 

 But no ! tliey take a sort of recompense in cursing for-- 

 tune. Great waste of breath. They might as well 

 curse mountains and eternal hills. For 1 can tell them 

 fortune does not give away real and substantial 

 goods. She sells them to the highest bidder — to tlie 

 hardest and wisest worker for the boon. Men never 

 make so fatal a mistake as when they think them- 

 selves creatures of fate: 'tis the sheerest folly in the 

 world. Every man may make or mar his life, which- 

 ever he may choose. Fortune is for those who by 

 diligence, liouesty and frugality, place themselves in 

 a position to grasp hold of fortune when it appears in 

 view. The best evidence of frugality is the five hun- 

 dred dollars or more standing in your name at the 

 savings bank. The best evidence of honesty is both 

 diligence and frugality. 



Fertilizer for Grass. 



The best artificial fertilizer (or grass is Peruvian 

 guano, which contains ammonia, pho.sphoric acid, 

 and some potash. This costs but $00 a tou ; 1.50 to 

 200 lbs. to the acre would he a good dressing to be 

 applied every second year. 



Deranged by the Bite of a Hog. 



Sever.al weeks ago Peter Harris, liWng on the Belair 

 road, just back of the Baltimore eenretery, and in 

 the employ of Mr. Chester, blacksmith, was bitten 

 by a wild hog, which had lieen roaming about that 

 portion of the city, resisting all endeavors to trap 

 him. Mr. Harris suft'ered severely from the bite, and 

 soon began to exhibit all the symptoms of hj-dropho- 

 bia. He foamed at the mouth like a mad dog, be- 

 came hysterical, smashed chairs and looking-ghisses, 

 and wanted to hit his friends. Measures were being 

 taken to remove the unfortunate man to quarters 

 where the lives of other people would not be endan- 

 gered, when suddenly, about ten days ago, he mys- 

 teriously disappeared, and has not been heard from 

 since. The conjecture is that Mr. Harris has died, 

 or he would have been heard from somewhere ere 

 this, as he was at the time of his departure a raving 

 maniac. He was attended by Dr. White, of Chase 

 street, who states that hogs, as well as dogs and 

 wolves, are subject to hydrophobia, taking the dis- 

 ease themselves without having been bitten. Mr. 

 Harris was a married man, twenty years of age, and 

 worked on a farm. 



Mellovv Soil Around Trees. 

 Unless the surface of the soil is mulched around 

 young trees over an area of six feet in diameter, tlie 

 ground should be kept clean and mellow. Every 

 farmer knows that a hill of corn or potatoes will not 

 amount to much unless cultivated, and yet there are 

 many who will neglect to give the same care to a tree 

 which is worth a hundred of either of the former. 

 In rich soil trees may grow rapidly without cultiva- 

 tion, and no amount of grass or weeds retard them ; 

 but there are other thing's besides the growth to be 

 looked after. If the weeds and grass are allowed to 

 grow up around the stems of apple, peach or quince 

 trees, the bark will become soft near their base by 

 being shaded, and thereby be in a suitable condition 

 for the reception of the eggs which will eventually 

 become peach or ai)ple borers. Take any dozen 

 young apple trees in a section where the apple borer 

 is abundant, and allow a portion to be choked with 

 weeds, while the remainder are well cultivated, and 

 then watch the result. From our own experience, we 

 believe that the chances are nine to one in favor of 

 those cultivated being exempt from this pest. — West- 

 i-ni FartiLer. 



Living Within One's Means. 



If a man desires to live within his means, and is 

 resolute in his purpose not to appear more than he 

 really is, let him be applauded. Tliere is something 

 fresh and invigorating in such an example, and we 

 should honor 'and uphold such a man with all the 

 energy in our power. But how ditlieult to stem the 

 direction of culture in our best circles, where apjii-o- 

 bativeness is nursed and tickled into excessive growth 

 in childhood, and eiMsequently bears its fruitage of 

 vanity, display, and supercilious obedience to con- 

 venticnialities in mature life. The extravagance of 

 the development may in time bring about a relbrm. 



But just now the world is crazy for show. There 

 is not one, perhaps, in athousand, whodares fall back 

 on his real, simple .self for power to get through the 

 world and exact enjoyment as he goes along. There 

 is no end to the aping, tlie mimicry, the false airs and 

 superficial acts. It requires rare courage to .live up 

 to one's enlightened convictions in these days. Un- 

 less one consents to join in the general cheat, there 

 is no room ibr him among the great pretenders. May 

 we not indulge the hope that by and by the intelligent 

 classes will frown down this demoralizing, artificial, 

 unnatural life, and rise to a higher and purer system? 

 — Hull's Jonrual of Health. 



The Wheat Crop in Europe. 



The yield of wheat in Continental Europe this year 

 is larger than was anticipated. In France adverse 

 I'eports were prevalent till quite recently, but the 

 crop is now believed to be above the average both in 

 quality and quantity. In Russia the harvest is not 

 BO good as in some other countries, but is above the 

 average for that country. The New York Bulletin 

 jM-ints the following table, showing the acreage under 

 wheat and rye in some of the leading countries of 

 Europe, and their respective populations at the most 

 recent official dates: 



Acrea 

 imder 

 wiioiit. 



11,1S6 

 4,19;),1UI 

 lis.sss 

 71,s,025 

 39,214 

 '214,074 

 17,l:!r,,C(!7 

 2,mil,411 

 Huugary 4,9SG,010 



Not'Wiiy 



I'ru8.sia 



Deiiiimrli 



Baviiria 



Wurteiiiburg . 



Holland 



Franco 



Austria.. 



Acres 



uuder 



rye. 



a2,851 



10,070,004 



561,607 



l,460,7S>i 



100.081 



487,678 



4,7:W,378 



4,908,20.^ 



67,209 



Popnla- 

 tion. 



1,742,000 

 24,04 ;i,ouo 

 1,7.84,000 

 4,863,000 

 1,81,8,000 

 3,707,000 

 36,103,000 

 20.420,1100 

 1.1,800,000 



Fishbone in the Throat. 



If J'OU get a fishbone in your throat, and it contin- 

 ues to stick there, swallow an egg raw. It will be 

 almost certain to carry the bone along with it. 



The Farmer's Centennial. 



There is no class of our community that should 

 take a deeper interest in the Centennial exhibition 

 than the farmers. The exhibition m.ay be said to 

 have been got up expressly for their benefit. Cer- 

 tainly no part of it more attractive or profitable to 

 visit than Agricultural Hall, which is tlie best ar- 

 ranged and most comfortable of them all, if not the 

 most beautiful of them all. The Agriculturist very 

 justly says: 



" No farmer or mechanic should miss seeing the 

 Centennial Exhibition. If he cannot go, he should 

 send one, at least,- of liis sons. If he cannot afford 

 to do that, he should take whiit recreation he can iu 

 the most convenient manner. Family parties, neigh- 

 borly picnics to interesting places, and social gather- 

 ings make us better acquainted with each other and 

 show the best points of people whom we might sup- 

 pose had but little good about them. In business- no 

 one is seen at his best, and we want to think as well 

 of our neighbors as we possibly can." 



How Weeds are Propagated. 



A writer in an exchange says the greatest evil to 

 which farmers are exposed by patronizing traveling 

 threshers, is the carrying of Ibul seeds from one farm 

 to another. If one farmer raises red root or Canada 

 thistle, the seeds are sure to be carried all through 

 the neighborhood by these threshers and clover hull- 

 ers. The remedy suggested is for good, tidy farmers 

 to club together and buy a thresher— not the large 

 six or eight horse-powers, but a good tread power as 

 now made, with a level tread, tiiat will thresh two 

 hundred bushels a day, with one team and three 

 men. " It is far safer," he says, " more profitable be- 

 cause less expensive, costing not more than one-half, 

 some say not more than one-third as much per bushel 

 to thresh grain as with the traveling machines, and 

 it relieves the house of a small army of men. As 

 long as traveling machines are used from farm to 

 farm, they should be brushed and swept from top 

 to bottom before moving from each station. Tliis is 

 the only precaution tliat can be taken to guard 

 against the dissemination of foul seeds, except the 

 plan above suggested." 



Old Fashioned Reaping. 



One day last harvest, by pre-arrangement, a meet- 

 ing of veteran farmers of the county was held on the 

 farm of John F. Izard, at Clayton, iu Gloucester 

 county, N. J., to reap a field of wheat as they used to 

 do in the early days of the Kepublic, before the in- 

 troduction of the cradle and the reaping machine. A 

 large number of persons were present to witness the 

 now-a-days novel proceeding. 



The following named old gentlemen participated in 

 the work : Tliom.as K . Ilewett, 79 years old, born in 

 Gloucester county ; Alpheus Heoman, 70 years old, 

 born at Absecom ; Samuel L. Izard, 73 years old, 

 born in Clayton ; .lolin D. Turner, 7.5 years old, born 

 in Gloucester county; Paul E. Jackson, 70 years old, 

 born in the county ; Win. Harness, 70 years old, born 

 in Montgomery county, Pa.; Thomas C. Kelley, 71 

 years old, liorn in the county ; Harrison Strang, who 

 walked several miles to join the party, aged 60 years, 

 born in the State. An old-fashioned dinner was pre- 

 pared for the guests, and in the afternoon the ladies 

 turned out iu the fii^d aud gathered the sheaves of 

 wheat. 



Quick Work. 



A trial was made on the 14th ult. at the Moss Creek 

 Mills, near Carrollton, Mo., to ascertain the time iu 

 which bread could be made from wheat standing iu 

 the field, and with the following astonishing result, 

 commencing at one minute after three o'clock aud 

 finished at twelve minutes after three: 



Commenced reaphig wheat 3.01 



Finished reajjiug .vheat 3.02 



Commenced tllreshiiig wlieat U.02J<J 



Fiuiehed threshing wheat (3{ bus,) 3.O31.4' 



Commenced grinding wheat 3.04f4 



Fiuielied gi-iudiug wheat 3.06?;^ 



Mrs. Lawtoii commenced making bread. A 3.08 



Finished making bread 3.08)^ 



Commenced baking bread 3.0hX 



Finished baking griddle cakes 3.0H>^ 



Finished baking biscuit 3.12 



Covering Manure. 



By a series of thorough experiments it has beeu 

 demonstrated that to obtain great good to crops the 

 first year, manure should not he buried but about two 

 inches deep; it therefore follows, that when it is spread 

 in the usual manner and ploughed under, much of it 

 is covered too deep, and some of its virtue is lost; but 

 the second crop will derive some benefit from it. An- 

 otticr way to lose a large jjortion of the ammonia of 

 manure is to spread it upon land and leave it for days, 

 aud in some cases for weeks, before it is plowed 

 under. If a farmer were seen to scatter greeubacka 

 over his field on some windy day, it would appear 

 that his head was quite as " level " as if he should 

 allow the sun and wind to draw out half or three- 

 fourths of the fertility of his manure before he plowed 

 it under the ground. — Wuonsocket Patriot. 



